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Friday, November 6, 2015

Adaptation

That which is alive evades and
adapts to remain so. Survival is a dynamic drama of hustle and variation.

When the Nazis came to
Amsterdam, Anne Frank hid quietly in the dark for two years. For generations,
the destitute Zabbaleen along the outskirts of Cairo have resorted to sorting
trash and burrowing into literal garbage towns like inhabitants of a rotting
ant farm.

Nature is equally resourceful.
When a creature becomes vulnerable, it develops camouflage, agility, and/or
weaponry. Leaf-tailed geckos resemble the tree bark where they bask, fresh
meals in broad daylight except for their disguise. With large hind feet and
scaly toe fringes, basilisks run on water to escape predators (thus the
nickname, "Jesus Lizard"). Ifthat's notingenuity,
horned toads shoot eye blood at their attackers. Even rocks reposition and
erode to fit into the evolving puzzle of the landscape.

In the theater of being, every
cell is a saga, each entity an actor toward another fantastical plot twist.